Charm Crush vs. Zot

Feature	Charm Crush	Zot

Tagline	Glamourous agentic coding for all	Yet another coding agent harness.
Website	https://charm.sh	https://zot.sh
Language	go	go
Release Date	July 29, 2025	April 18, 2026
Last Updated	August 19, 2026	September 4, 2026
Provider Type	Independent	Independent
MCP Support	Yes	No
Multi-Agent Support	Yes	Yes
Git Integration	deep	low
Multi-File Editing	Yes	Yes
Auto Test Running	Yes	No
Sandbox / Permissions	Yes	Yes
Image / Multimodal Input	Yes	Yes
Voice Mode	No	No
IDE Integration	None - Terminal only	None
Hooks / Extensions	Yes	Yes
Web Search	Yes	Yes
Local Model Support	Yes	Yes
Context Window	Model-dependent	Model dependent
Supported Models	All Crush-compatible models via Charm Hyper from Anthropic, OpenAI, Deepseek, Gemini, Groq, etc.	Models from Anthropic, OpenAI, Kimi, DeepSeek, Google Gemini/Vertex, GitHub Copilot, Bedrock, Azure and 300+ models from OpenRouter.
Pricing Model	BYOK	Free
Free Tier	Yes	No
Price Range	Free (BYOK), $0 - $20 / month	$0
Source Code Availability	Open Source (FSL-1.1-MIT)	Open Source (MIT)
Source Code	https://github.com/charmbracelet/crush	https://github.com/patriceckhart/zot
Development State	active	active